Ray Hadley slams One Nation candidate Mark Latham’s plan for indigenous DNA ...

Radio broadcaster Ray Hadley has criticised One Nation candidate Mark Latham's plan to introduce DNA testing in order to prevent indigenous welfare rorts.

Mr Latham - One Nation's New South Wales leader - wants to stop people without Aboriginal ancestry from fraudulently claiming welfare benefits designed for indigenous people.

Under the proposed plan, Aboriginality would be determined by a DNA test proving the applicant has at least one full-blood Aboriginal grandparent.

Currently, Australians can self-identify as indigenous. 

Hadley said the policy doesn't make sense, as Mr Latham is a candidate for the NSW parliament and can not influence federal matters such as welfare. 

Radio broadcaster Ray Hadley has criticised One Nation candidate Mark Latham's (pictured) plan to introduce DNA testing in order to prevent indigenous welfare rorts

Radio broadcaster Ray Hadley has criticised One Nation candidate Mark Latham's (pictured) plan to introduce DNA testing in order to prevent indigenous welfare rorts

Hadley (pictured) said the policy didn't make sense, as Mr Latham is a candidate for the NSW parliament and can not influence federal matters such as welfare

Hadley (pictured) said the policy didn't make sense, as Mr Latham is a candidate for the NSW parliament and can not influence federal matters such as welfare 

'It's just a populist-type decision. I do have a number of concerns about the fact that he said you've got to prove that you're 25 per cent indigenous which means you've got to have grandparents who are full-blooded Aboriginal people,' he told The Today Show.

'There would be people that have grandfathers, great-grandfathers, great-grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers who claim they are indigenous and so they should be able to be, I mean it's part of their heritage.'

Hadley said he believes there is a problem with people claiming Centrelink benefits they weren't entitled to, but disagreed with Mr Latham's DNA benchmark of 25 per cent indigenous ancestry to qualify.

'To actually quantify it with 25 per cent - what, so your great-grandfather and great-grandmother are indigenous but under Mark Latham's scheme you can't claim aboriginality?' Hadley said.

'Mark Latham can't do anything about it in the state parliament, it's a federal matter. It's simply a populist thing to try and gain attention.' 

Mr Latham disputed Hadley's claim welfare fraud is a federal issue.

'No, there's a whole host of New South Wales indigenous welfare programs, positions reserved for Aboriginal people, the Land Council system where you need to qualify... the Land Councils in New South Wales have got assets of $5billion,' he said.

'There's a huge amount of state money that goes into this area and what I'm saying is if the technology exists, the DNA ancestry testing, let's use it.

Australians claiming to be Aboriginal would be forced to undergo DNA testing under a One Nation policy designed to stamp out welfare fraud (pictured is One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, left, with the party's New South Wales leader Mark Latham)

Australians claiming to be Aboriginal would be forced to undergo DNA testing under a One Nation policy designed to stamp out welfare fraud (pictured is One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, left, with the party's New South Wales leader Mark Latham) 

'We should be respecting genuine indigenous identity and getting the money to the people in need who have got the genuine Aboriginal background.'

Mr Latham said Australians are upset with seeing

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